Links:
//
    -WIKIPEDIA: Charles Dickens
    -INDEX: Charles Dickens (CrimeReads)
    -
    -
    -ESSAY: How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output: Peter Conrad Explores the English Novelist's Cyclical Vision of Life and Art (Peter Conrad, May 5, 2025, LitHub)
    -ETEXT: Annotations: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens: Scrooge became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. (Liz Tracey December 14, 2024, JStor Daily)
    -ESSAY: A Christmas Carol in Context: Dickens’ Beloved Festive Fable: Dickens was just six years into his writing career when he penned A Christmas Carol. 181 years on, it remains a beloved festive fable. (Olivia Jordan, , 12/21/24, The Collector)
    -ESSAY: The Remarkable Life of Charles Dickens: Hard Times & Great Expectations: One of the greatest writers of English literary history, Charles Dickens’ rags-to-riches story is as incredible as any of his greatest works of fiction. (Catherine Dent, 12/21/24, The Collector)
    -ESSAY: I Believe in A Christmas Carol (and the Redemptive Power of Memory) (David Bannon, 12/20/24, Christ & Pop Culture)
    -ESSAY: ‘A Christmas Carol’ Marvelously Captured the Holiday’s Victorian Spirit and Inspired New Traditions for Centuries to Come: Published on this day in 1843, at a time when Christmas was undergoing great transformation, Charles Dickens’ novel centered the virtues of kindness, charity and reform (Eli Wizevich, December 19, 2024 Smithsonian)
    -ESSAY: Let's Not Forget Charles Dickens's Other Christmas Ghost Stories!: He loved writing these. There are very many. (Olivia Rutigliano, 12/11/24, Crime Reads)
    -ESSAY: Method, Shmethod (George Saunders, Feb 6, 2022, Story Time)
    -ESSAY: The Crisis That Nearly Cost Charles Dickens His Career (Louis Menand, Feb. 24th, 2022, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: Famous Yet Elusive: On Charles Dickens’s Unstable Reputation: “Even in photographs it looked as if his soul had been ‘pumped out of him.’’ (By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, March 1, 2022, LitHub)
    -ARTICLE: Forget Wordle! Can you crack the Dickens Code? An IT worker from California just did (Simon Usborne, 2/7/22, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: Festival of the Senses: The ultimate awakening in Dickens' A Christmas Carol. (Dorothy Reno, December 13, 2021, Washington Independent Review of Books)
    -ESSAY: The Liberation of Scrooge : Dickens’ tale is so effective because, in the words of Chesterton, it is targeted not at institutions but “an expression of the human face.” (Richard Gunderman, 12/24/20. law & Liberty)
    -ESSAY: Charles Dickens, the Writer Who Saw Lockdown Everywhere: For the novelist, imprisonment wasn’t just a stain on society; it was an aspect of the self (Laurence Scott, december 2020, The New Yorker)
    -ESSAY: DISCOVERING CHARLES DICKENS' "THE SIGNALMAN": Laurie Loewenstein on a classic Dickens ghost story. (LAURIE LOEWENSTEIN, 10/11/12, CrimeReads)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: Let Charles Dickens’s The Chimes Invigorate Your Sense of Hope (Ben Fulton, DECEMBER 29, 2023, Common Reader)
    -ESSAY: Caulfield versus Copperfield: The literature a society reads shapes it—for the worse, in J. D. Salinger’s case. (Robert Whaples, June 2, 2025, Modern Age)
    -ESSAY: Charles Dickens Was Not French: What the Great English and French Novels Reveal About National Character (Daniel Hadas, 12/06/2024, Cafe Americain)
    -ESSAY: Dickens's Other Christmas Book: ‘Every Time a Bell Chimes, A Goblin Gets Its Wings’ (Adam Roberts, Dec 23, 2024, Substack-ships On Fire, Off The Shoulder Of Orion)
    -ESSAY: A Charles Dickens patchwork: A night walk through the world of an author haunted by humanity (Oliver Soden, April 9, 2025, The Spectator)
    -
    -
    -REVIEW : of 'Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks' by Peter Gay (Lorraine Adams, Washington Post)
    -REVIEW: of Dickens By Peter Ackroyd (Bryan Appleyard, Literary Review)
    -
    -
    -REVIEW: of Dickens the Enchanter: Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller by Peter Conrad (Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Review)
    -
    -REVIEW:The mercurial master of magic and misery: If Dickens was a unique enchanter, Conrad is a charmingly bewitched conjurer of his genius: a review of Dickens the Enchanter by Peter Conrad (Daisy Dunn, 3/13/25, The Critic)

FILM:
    -REVIEW: A Jesus Movie … with Charles Dickens?:The star-studded new kids’ movie “The King of Kings” cleverly tells the story of the gospels with a creative framing device.(Peter T. Chattaway, 4/10/25, Christianity Today)
    -FILM REVIEW: The King of Kings is a story-within-a-story filled with wonder: Beautifully animated, the film is the perfect Easter outing for the whole family and ranks among the best adaptations of “the greatest story ever told.” (Nick Olszyk, 4/11/25, The Dispatch)
    -